N A £ 9 N £ IV S LETTER
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS
Frank £. Schooley, Editor, Station WILL, Urbana, III*
August I, 1943
SEND IN YOUR UNI LEVEL QUESTIONNAIRE PRONTO!!
Mike Hanna, WHCU, Chairman of the Joint AER-NAEB Committee to study the
EXTENT ANO EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL BROADCASTING SAYS THE
INFORMATION ON HAND IS NOV,’ BEING COMPILED AND ANALYZED*
Furthermore, he says a number of NAEB stations haven*? responded to the
QUESTIONNAIRE. THAT SHOULDN'T BE THE C A E» So IF YOU HAVEN * T SENT IN
THE DOPE ON YOUR OWN PROGRAMS, V’H V NOT 00 IT NOW. , 0 IT NOW BEFORE YOU
delay action again* What is that old adage about never putting off to
TOMORROW.—‘‘STOP ScHOOLEY, I ’ LL SEND MINE IN PRONTO."
WNAD PKOCRA;.. ,;£R I IS ATTSLTI C«\
A recent issue of TIME MAGAZINE carried an article on the “Indians for
Indians Hour” program broadcast by University radio station WNAD. The
PROGRAM, HEADED BY Don WHISTLER, NORMAN, HAS ALSO RECEIVED NATIONAL
PUBLICITY IN VARIETY MAGAZ I ME , TUNE IN radio JOURNAL AND THE OMAHA
WORLD-TELEGRAM.
Virginia Hawk, WNAD director, has received a request from the Congressional
Library in Washington, D* C a , for recordings of the program for their
files, ano the Columbia Broadcasting System has asked permission to
include it in the School of the Air series to be broadcast next fall.
“Indians for Indian Hour" may be heard on WNAD (640 kilocycles) from
1:00 to 1:30 on Tuesday*
WNYC WINS “SPECIAL Al AQ» BILLBOARD POLL
WNYC, New York City’s Municipal Station won a "Special Award for out¬
standing PUBLIC SERVICE" ACCOrDING TO SELECTIONS OF THE AWARDS COMMITTEE
CONSISTING OF JOHN K a HUTCHENS, RADIO EDITOR OF THE Ne’ YORK TtMES,
Harriet Van Horne, radio editor of the World-Telegram, 8en Gross, radio
editor of the New V'ork Daily News, Leonaro Tf.aube, editor of Billboard,
in Billboard Magazine’s Sixth Annual Radio Fusl.icitv Exhibit Survey*
The statement of the Committee in granting WNYC this special recognition
reads in part,*,* *“The City outlet, being non-commercial, tackles
PUBLICITY TO ROUND OUT ITS PUBLIC SERVICE IMPRINT WHERE THE STANDARD
STATION SHOOTS FOR SPACE BECAUSE IT MEANS DOLLARS AND CENTS, News ABOUT
RATIONING, SELECTIVE SERVICE, OCD AND CONSUMER ACTIVITIES ARE STANDARD
WITH WNYC. In ADDITION, THEY DO A WHOPPING JOB ON THE CULTURAL SIDE*
Typical of the latter ”as its annual festival of American music. 1 The
STATEMENT WENT ON TO ADD THAT 11 I T (WNYC) OPERATES ON A SHOESTRING, THE
POLITICAL ’OUTS 9 GUN FOR IT EVERY YEAR, YET DESPITE EVERY HANDICAP IT
PRODUCES PROGRAM SCHEDULES THAT ARE STRICTLY IN THE BIG GUN CLASS."
NAEB NEWS LETTER
°Page 2
..August I, 1943
Thus reads the announcement in the current edition of Billboard telling
how and why WNYC was selected for this Special AwarDo In expressing thp
THANKS OF THE ENTIRE STAFF FOR THIS RECOGNITION, MORRIS S 0 NOVIK,
DIRECTOR OF THE C|TY STATION, PROMISED THAT "THIS AWARD SHALL STAND AS
A SYMBOL OF PAST ACHIEVEMENTS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME *CT AS AN INCENTIVE
TOWARDS MORE AND GREATER SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ClTY OF NEW Y0 RK„ m
WTAW GETS INCREASED FACILITIES
WTAW, Texas A & M College has been granted daytime operation on 1150 kc
BY THE FCC. WTAW had PREVIOUSLY SHARED TIME WITH KTBC, AUSTIN, ON THIS
FREQUENCY « J. J» WOOLKET IS PROGRAM DlRECTORo
Indiana presents” in naeb script exchange
Book Two of h Indiana Writers, h a series of radio dramatizations dedicated
TO NATIVE AND ADOPTED WRITERS OF INDIANA HAS BEEN FORWARDED BY H 0 J,
SKORNIA TO THE NAEB SCRIPT EXCHANGE. The BOOK CONTAINS 26 ORIGINAL
SCRIPTS WRITTEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SkORNIA BY STUDENTS AT INDIANA*
RANDOM NOTES
Waldo Abbot has ground out another of those news letters to his studes.
makes #12 in the series to his former students... o 0n April 4, 1934,
John Callahan, Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, issued
WHAT IS CONCEDED TO BE THE FIRST RADIO TEACHING LICENSE EVER GIVEN, TO
harold a 0 Engel, director of the Wisconsin College of the Air over WHA„
nAROLD, PAST NAEB PRESIDENT, IS NOW A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARM Y«... WONDER
WHY SOME OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE 00N 1 T WRITE ME A LINE OR TWO FOR
INCLUSION IN SOME FUTURE NEWS LETTERS— C A RL MenZER, H A ROLD McCaRTY,
Harold Lngel, Mike Hanna, Gibbs Williams, MC Jensen, W. I. Griffith,
ib Pettegrew? o.o.D resser Dahlstead, former Hollywood Blue, spends some
OF HIS SPARE TIME ANNOUNCING ON WILL THESE DAYS. He 0 S STATIONED AT
Chanute ield....One of Bob Coleman's former announcers at WKAR dropped
in to visit WILL stud ios.... Have you sent in your AER-NAEB questionnaires?..
What would you like to see in future NAEB NEWS LETTERS?. . ..Guess George’
Jennings is busy with plans for first full year of operation for WBEZ....
What happened to Allen Miller after he returned to West Coast?....Is
Elmer Sulzer in the army of navy, or is he just too busy to write?....
How are things at KFKU and WNAD with Miss Seaman and Miss Hawks?....
Regard.s to Past Prexy Ingham. .» .Major Powell—what*s happened to Charley
D UD LEY? 9M ,BBe is FURNISHING A NUMBER OF NAEB STATIONS WITH TRANSCRIPTIONS
OF BBC PROGRAMS...Got ANY PERSONNEL PROBLEMS AT YOUR STATION?... ,Th| S IS
NOT THE Wake, but Help, Help, Help, anyway.
FCC ACTIONS
WNYC, New York City, granted authority to determine operating power by
DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF ANTENNA POWER FOR AUXILIARY TRANSMITTER. (7/6/43)
WNYC, New York Sty, applied for Special Servic Authorization to operate
FROM 6 A.M. TO 10 P.M., WITH POWER OF I KV; , AMENDED REGARDING DIRECTIONAL
ANTENNA. (7/12/43)
RAEB NEWS LETTER
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oA ugust I, 1943
WTAW, Texas A. & M,, granted modificat son of license to increase hours
OF OPERATION FROM SPECIFIED HOURS DIVIDING USE OF FREQUENCY 1150 KC WITH
KTBC, TO FULL DAYTIME OPERATION ON SAME FREQUENCYo (7/?0/43)
WO I, Iowa State, applied for Special Service Authorisation to operate
FROM 6 A.Mo TO LOCAL SUNRISE, GST, WITH POWER OF 5 KW FOR THE PERIOD
ending February 1, I944 0 (7/26/43)
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